Sea Island Cotton Bath & Body Works 2007 Eau de Toilette

A long summer is coming to an end and the bed linens are fluttering on the line between the two apple trees. It’s time to winterize the summer house - to keep out the sea winds, to fight against salt and decay. We throw white sheets over delicate furniture. We bid farewell to a summer that has been and will return next year.
The air is already autumnal and I see apples ripening on the trees.
One last time, I bury my nose in the Egyptian cotton of the bed linens - then a long car ride awaits, school, the city, a snowy winter.

This scent is carefree in its freshness and it embodies the South that I only knew as a child from stories, books, and movies. Mandarin trees and shimmering heat, over endless cotton fields.
Antebellum, plantations, carriages, crinolines.

There are days when I need this scent as desperately as there are days when I crave cinnamon muffins and sweet potato casserole.
And then Sea Island Cotton envelops me gently and smoothly after spraying, wrapping me like freshly washed bed linens and yet, I can always smell it, only the first note fades away. What remains are my childhood and the summers on Cape Cod.